Module 3: Lesson 7 - Mistakes and errors Flashcards
What is the difference between a mistake and error?
Mistake: where the learner knows the right answer, but made the mistake due to other factors. The mistake can be self-corrected.
Error: where the learner is unsure of the foundational understanding of the error, shows a lack of competence. The error cannot be self-corrected.
Name 3 types of errors learners typically make.
Structural errors
Phonological errors
Lexical errors
Name 4 types of structural errors to look out for.
Grammar errors: I think Jack is the better musician in the world.
Tense errors: Yesterday, I go to the beach.
Word order: Where you are going?
Fragments: Is raining.
What phonetic challenges do Chinese learners typically face?
There are 15 phonemes we have in English that are not found in Mandarin Chinese.
Cantonese and other Southern Chinese languages are syllable-timed languages (the syllables take approximately equal amounts of time to pronounce).
Syllables in Chinese generally end with a vowel sound. This means many Chinese speakers will drop the final consonant in an English word.
Long and short vowels do not exist in Chinese, so they tend to find it very hard to distinguish between short and long vowel sounds in English.
What phonetic challenges to Arabic learners typically face?
English has 5 vowels, which combine to make diphthongs, resulting in a total of 22 vowel sounds. Arabic only has single vowel sounds.
English has three times the amount of vowel sounds compared to Arabic.
Arabic has 6 phonemes that we don’t have in English.
Arabic has 28 consonants and 6 vowels compared to 24 consonants in English and 22 combined vowel sounds.
What phonetic challenges to French learners typically face?
French students often have trouble with the “h” sound.
French students have difficulty with the “th” sounds, often pronouncing them as “z.”
The French phonetic alphabet has 37 phonemes in total, while the English phonetic alphabet has 44 in total.
What phonetic challenges to Spanish learners typically face?
Spanish has 5 vowels, just like English.
Spanish is a phonetic language but English isn’t.
Consonant clusters are extremely tricky for Spanish students.
What are lexical errors related to?
Lexical errors are related to vocabulary.
